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The list is:
Foremast (the forward-most mast)
Helm (the ship's wheel)
Aftdeck (the poop deck)
Cargo crates (probably below decks)
Starboard railing (no portholes)
Port railing (no portholes)
The helm (the wheel itself) is *on* the aft deck. Nothing else indicates abaft-ness....
[edit] aft-ness -> abaft-ness to be technical :p
Yea, aft means a rear place, but not necessarily rear-most; but the list doesn't have poop. Yet the helm is in the back, where the poop is, so it's not clear which one you should pick (in my thinking). I think I would pick helm, myself, since aft can mean near the rear, yet the helm is very much at the rear.
Er, wasn't going for abaftness though... I only chose aftdeck because I eliminated everything else. Also, as I said before, I think it's pretty much impossible to fall from the helm since that's not anywhere near the sides of the ship(the question they ask is "Where on the ship did he fall?").
(Just to avoid making anyone flip back and forth, this is the post I had in the other thread)
Here's what I have so far; hopefully, others can add to it.
There are two (and a half) problems with Anshu's story that I can tell so far:
- Anshu is supposed to fix a leak right as the storm begins, but Linae says she helped Anshu fix the leak "near the end of the storm". This pretty much narrows the liars down to Anshu and Linae.
- Near 5:00, Bonju notices that Hoban had "calmed down a little" and asks Hoban what the problem is, and he finds out - Linae was calling him bad luck. However, Anshu says Bonju has "no idea" (which is possible if Bonju approached Hoban after Anshu asked Bonju) but then Hoban was "having yet another argument", which doesn't fit at all with seeming calmer.
Assuming we can trust at least one of Bonju or Anshu, he wasn't pushed exactly at 5:00 because two both people say they saw Hoban perfectly well at that time. The only time remaining is 6:00. Another hint that Hoban (probably) was fine until around 6:00: who would have plotted the points on the map to try to navigate out of the storm?
The following was scraped from various Internet sources and Wikipedia, so I'm not sure of some of this:
A close look at the ship shows you that the portholes are in the front and back, near the helm, foremast, and aftdeck, and that there are no portholes below the port or starboard railings.
It doesn't even look like the cargo crates are above deck from the pictures. If they mean the scattered boxes around the deck, that's way too vague, and I doubt there even *were* cargo crates left on deck after all that tossing around in the storm.
There isn't really much of a foremast from the pictures - it doesn't really extend past the boundaries of the ship, so it's impossible to be pushed from the foremast overboard.
The same problem occurs with the helm - that's the wheel, and it's kinda far from the sides of the ship (see chapter 1, page 2), so it's also rather hard to be pushed from there into the water.
I think I'm going with "aftdeck", probably the real-world "poop deck", the platform on which the wheel is situated (as far as I can tell).
6:00, hopefully, corresponds to the I22 X on the grid. *fingers crossed*
There are a few questions that I haven't answered, though:
- What happened to Bonju's original knife?
- Why did Linae's tile disappear?
- What set Honan off anyway, before dinner? Linae?
If there's any problems in my logic, or improvements, feel free to correct me.